{"id":168,"date":"2006-12-09T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessa.datdec.com\/wordpress\/?p=168"},"modified":"2006-12-09T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T20:41:00","slug":"happy-happy-merry-merry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Happy happy, merry merry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today was a festive day. We
\n bought a Christmas tree from a guy who runs (ran?) a (now
\n condemned, I believe) motel. It was great. He came highly
\n recommended. We were looking at the five-foot trees and they
\n all looked so small! I started reminiscing about my childhood
\n trees… walking for a mile down a steep hill in three feet of
\n snow to cut a down an eight-foot tree, dragging it back up that
\n huge hill and into the living room, where we realized that
\n eight feet just doesn’t fit, so back out again to chop off the
\n top, then back in to see what we’ve got. Much more adventurous
\n than a motel parking lot. \"\"<\/a>We settled on a nice five-foot
\n tree and then they wrapped it in string and Alan put it on the
\n top of the Subaru where it looked even tinier. I kept thinking
\n it was just way too small. But logic prevailed and when we
\n brought it in the house and unwrapped it, it was perfect! Alan
\n got it all nice and straight in the stand and we put lights on
\n and (for the first time ever) all of the ornaments we own. Lex
\n had fun with the extension cord we bought that has a big red
\n button on it. We plugged in the tree and the window lights and
\n he turned them on and off about a hundred times. The neighbors
\n must have thought we were insane. :) \"\"<\/a>Lex was very helpful at taking
\n the ornaments out of the box, identifying them, and then
\n handing them to me to put on the tree. He got a little crazy
\n when we ran out of ornaments and started digging through the
\n boxes, throwing paper around, and then resorted to taking them
\n off the tree, identifying them and handing them back to me. I
\n think he was missing the point of our evening activity, but a
\n good time was had by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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